ITINERATING  BOAT  OF  REV.  A.  A.  FULTON,  D.D. 
CANTON,  CHINA. 

DR.  FULTON,  PREACHERS  AND  CHRISTIAN  BOYS  ON 
BOAT  WHICH  HAS  BEEN  IN  SERVICE  SINCE  1901 


THE  CHINA  OF  TO-DAY 
THEN  AND  NOW 

We  have  met  travelers  who  have 
visited  Canton,  and  have  seen  absolutely 
nothing  of  the  missionary  work  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  They  have  seen 
the  thousands  upon  thousands  of  boats 
of  every  kind  crowded  upon  the  river, 
and  they  have  gone  through  the  reeking 
streets,  and  smelt  the  incense  burning  in 
the  temples  and  seen  the  half  naked 
masses  of  busy  people  toiling  under  the 
burden  that  is  called  life.  They  have 
heard  the  unintelligible  clamor  of  the 
strange  tongue,  and  been  dazed  by  the 
great  yellow,  sodden  rush  of  human 
movement  like  the  tidal  ebb  and  flow  of 
the  muddy  river,  and  they  come  away 
thinking  and  saying  that  the  idea  of  pene- 
trating and  transforming  all  this  by 
Christianity,  is  a delusion.  They  would 
think  and  speak  differently  if  they  had 
seen  what  we  had  seen,  and  especially 
if  they  were  able  to  compare  it,  as  I 
can,  with  conditions  of  fifteen  or  twenty 
years  ago.  Then,  most  of  the  work  which 
is  now  carried  on  did  not  exist.  No 
such  crowded  company  of  eager  listeners 
could  have  been  gathered  as  met  one  wet 
night  in  the  Second  Church  of  Canton 
and  there  would  then  have  been  no  re- 
sponse at  all  to  a call  for  immediate  de- 
cisions for  Christ  and  His  Church. 
Then.  I think,  there  was  scarcely  an  in- 


dependent  or  self-supporting  church  in 
the  province ; now  there  are  many,  and 
the  great  work  of  propagating  Chris- 
tianity is  being  carried  forward  by 
Chinese  Christians  themselves.  Then, 
even  in  Canton,  exposed  for  a hundred 
years  to  Western  influences,  the  old 
stagnant  ideals  were  still  dominant,  and 
all  inclusive ; now,  the  yeast  of  new 
principles  has  sunk  down  deep  into  the 
great  mass  of  Chinese  thought  and  feel- 
ing, and  though  the  mass  looks  still  the 
same,  the  ferment  of  the  new  life  is 
there.  Happy  ought  we  to  be  to  whom 
God  has  given  so  large  a share  in  a work 
so  great,  and  ive  ought  to  be  ready  also, 
as  the  greatest  and  most  successful 
propagator  of  Christianity  said  he  was, 
to  do  whatever  is  in  our  pozver,  and  to 
make  zvhatcver  sacrifice  may  be  required, 
in  order  that  the  great  opportunities  of 
these  days  may  not  be  allowed  to  slip  by. 
* * * * 

P'rom  Peking,  the  old  capital  of  the 
Manchus,  dirty,  decrepit,  unchanging, 
we  came  out  across  great  pitiful  acres 
where  one  of  China’s  wandering  rivers 
had  left  its  old  bed,  and  was  roaming 
lawlessly  across  the  country,  spreading 
ruin  over  hundreds  of  square  miles. 
With  the  mud  piled  deep  over  their 
farms,  the  people  were  warring  with  the 
stream,  to  shut  it  back  into  servitude.  All 
the  rest  of  the  day  to  Shan  Hai  Kuan  we 
crossed  broad  plains  like  our  own  north- 


west,  with  millet  instead  of  corn.  The 
train  stopped  for  the  night  at  Shan  Hai 
Knan,  and  we  went  out  in  the  moonlight 
to  the  great  wall  of  China,  and  walked 
along  its  battlements  and  looked  away 
at  its  dim  outline  crossing  the  plain  and 
climbing  the  great  hills.  It  possessed 
still  the  massive,  solid  grandeur  of  its 
past  but  it  lay  there  in  the  dim  light 
crumbling  away  in  decay  and  neglect,  un- 
related to  the  great  movement  and  uses 
of  humanity,  rich  in  memory  and  stuff 
for  human  service  but  dumb,  unlighted. 
What  truer  symbol  of  China  could  there 
be? 

It  is  day  time  now  and  the  rich  autumn 
sunshine  is  falling  on  the  farmers  gather- 
ing in  their  crops  and  zve  sec  poor,  huge 
China  like  the  zmll,  zvandering,  in  the 
half  light  and  no  zvhither. 

Robert  E.  Speer. 


Note  — Sec'y  Robt.  E.  Speer  and  parly  have 
just  returned  from  a visit  to  China,  Japan,  Siam 
and  the  Philippines. 


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Dr.  and  Mrs.  V.  E.  Yang.  Dr.  Yang,  a former  stu- 
dent of  Ilanchow  College,  is  now  a powerful 
evangelist  whoso  message  has  quickened 
many  Christians  and  won  many  to 
the  Saviour. 


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CHINESE  CHRISTIANS 
AND  EVANGELISM 

J'lie  situation  in  China  to-day  for  the 
work  of  the  evangelist  is  not  one  which 
permits  thoughtless,  highly  colored,  over- 
enthusiastic  optimism.  We  are  in  the 
midst  of  a great  battle  and  the  line 
sways  hack  and  forth.  On  the  desk  as  I 
write  there  lie  letters  from  six  jn'ovinccs 
answering  questions  about  the  evangel- 
istic work,  and  there  are  shadow's  in  the 
reports  as  well  as  sunlight.  Attacks 
which  we  hoped  w'ould  sweep  all  before 
them  have  w’on  only  the  first  trenches. 
Positions  w’hich  we  thought  abandoned 
by  the  enemy  have  been  occupied  again. 
Many  of  us  must  now'  admit  that  we 
over  estimated  the  present  direct  value 
to  Christian  work  of  the  great  intel- 
lectual and  social  movements  of  recent 
years. 

But  when  all  admissions  which  the 
situation  calls  for  have  been  made  and 
we  face  conditions  as  they  are  rather 
than  as  we  wish  they  were,  one  is  justi- 
fied in  speaking  in  strong  terms  of  the 
evangelistic  opportunity.  From  each  of 
the  six  provinces  referred  to  come  re- 
ports of  greater  w’illingness  on  the  part 
of  people  of  all  classes  to  give  the  gos- 
pel a hearing.  The  country  districts  in 
all  directions  are  opening  rapidly  to 
Christian  influence.  There  has  been  a 
verv  marked  change  in  this  respect  in 
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the  report  which  comes  from  Hzvai  Yuen 
in  north  AnHwe  province.  From  Nan- 
king comes  the  news  that  in  the  large 
county  seats  wlienever  there  have  been 
evangelistic  meetings  the  attendance  has 
been  quite  large,  and  in  centres  where 
the  work  has  been  in  progress  for  some 
time  the  number  of  inquirers  is  very 
satisfactory.  In  the  Lui  Chow  peninsula, 
just  opposite  the  island  of  Hainan  and 
territorially  a part  of  that  mission,  an 
itinerant  missionary  found  a number  of 
inquirers  although  there  is  neither  Chin- 
ese nor  foreign  evangelist  resident  in 


The  thorough fai-e  on  which  the  street  Chapel  in 
Soochow  is  located.  It  ieads  to  the  city 
gate  and  is  aiways  crowded, 


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that  region.  Soochozv  reports  a far 
greater  openness  among  the  country  peo- 
ple than  five  years  ago,  and  in  a city 
centre  large  attendance  at  preaching 
service  four  nights  each  week.  Dr. 
Shoemaker  of  Yu  Yao,  Chekiang,  says, 
“there  is  certainly  an  unusual  openness 
of  approach  to  the  old  scholar  class.  The 
ladies  are  well  received  in  the  homes  of 
the  leading  families,  and  sons  of  the 
oldest  and  most  aristocratic  families  are 
being  sent  to  Christian  schools  even  at 
the  risk  of  being  won  away  from  the 
faith  of  their  fathers.  The  people  in  the 
country  districts  give  the  gospel  a more 
respectful  and  interested  hearing  than 
formerly.  Some  of  our  country  congre- 
gations have  made  a marked  growth 
lately,  and  it  seems  to  be  spontaneous.” 
My  personal  observation  in  our  Hang- 
chow field  is  similar. 

A feiv  specific  instances  drawn  from 
our  Hangchow  field,  probably  typical, 
are  indicative  of  the  new  opportunity  to 
get  a careful  hearing  for  the  gospel.  In 
a district  in  the  mountains  a hundred  or 
more  miles  south,  one  of  the  Chinese 
evangelists  was  asked  by  the  county 
magistrate  to  help  in  settling  peaceably 
a long  standing  feud  in  a mountain  dis- 
trict. He  succeeded  in  doing  so  and 
came  into  close  contact  with  the  leaders 
of  the  clan,  who  were  evidently  im- 
pressed with  the  possibility  of  what  the 
gospel  might  do  for  their  community. 

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As  a result  they  asked  that  work  be 
opened,  gave  a temple  for  the  preach- 
ing hall  and  another  building  for  a school. 
They  are  bearing  the  expenses  of  the 
school  and  have  promised  to  give  to  the 
church  the  deeds  for  two  acres  of  farm 
land  now  held  as  public  property.  A 
school  and  a night  school  are  running 
regularly  and  there  are  a large  number 
of  the  people  under  instruction  as  in- 
quirers. 

As  I write  we  have  just  closed  a series 
of  night  evangelistic  meetings  in  one  of 
our  city  chapels.  Eliminating  the  little 
children  and  a certain  proportion  for 
those  adults  who  did  remain  for  any 
length  of  time,  we  had  by  actual  count 
a total  attendance  of  nearly  sixteen  hun- 
dred. On  the  closing  night  sixty  signed 
cards  for  Bible  study  and  at  the  first 
date  set  for  classes  twenty-seven  of 
these  appeared. 

One  of  the  significant  opportunities  in 
cz<a)igclisni  is  the  openness  nozv  apparent 
in  many  sections  ajnong  the  student 
classes  and  among  business  and  profes- 
sional men  as  zvell  as  among  some  of  the 
nezver  officials. 

So  far  it  has  been  found  extremely 
difficult  to  get  men  of  these  classes  to 
come  to  the  point  of  open  acceptance  of 
Christ  and  of  uniting  with  the  church.  In 
other  words  the  situation  is  not  one  call- 
ing for  jubilation,  but  for  hard  work 
and  earnest  prayer.  The  church  must 
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Mrs.  .T.  X.  Ila.ves  of  Soochow  witli  lipr  Sunday- 
school  class. 


willingly  use  any  proper  method  which 
w ill  increase  her  contact  with  such  groups 
of  Chinese  and  co-operate  with  all 
agencies  whose  activities  help  in  this 
task. 

All  over  the  country  new'  types  of 
work  are  developing.  In  the  larger  cities 
what  w'ould  he  called  at  home  “institu- 
tional” work  is  being  taken  up.  Night 
classes  and  reading  rooms  are  being 
0])ened  up  and  the  indications  are  that  a 
great  opportunity  will  come  through 
these  agencies.  The  reading  rooms  seem 
to  lie  w’ell  patronized  and  if  personal  re- 
lationships are  established  with  those 
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who  come,  the  opportunities  will  be  very 
large.  Chinese  social  customs  are  such 
that  it  is  not  difficult  to  establish  these 
relationships. 

In  a moderate  zvay  the  church  in  China 
is  entering  upon  lines  of  social  service. 
One  very  effective  and  practicable 
method  is  by  the  use  of  the  popular  lec- 
ture. It  is  impossible  for  those  not  fa- 
miliar with  Chinese  conditions  to  realize 
the  amount  of  ignorance  and  supersti- 
tion which  directly  or  indirectly  con- 
tributes to  the  spiritual  as  well  as  intel- 
lectual and  physical  injury  of  the  peo- 
ple. Lectures  on  hygiene  and  sanitation 
reaching  thousands  of  the  ordinary  peo- 
ple who  will  be  little  influenced  by  the 
press  or  the  school  is  not  only  a type  of 
service  well  worthy  of  the  Christian 
church,  but  one  which  will  help  to  create 
conditions  favorable  to  the  spread  of 
the  gospel.  In  a work  of  this  kind  just 
opened  in  Hangchow  we  have  found  it 
practicable  to  relate  the  lecture  work  and 
the  direct  gospel  preaching  very  closely. 

But  when  all  is  said,  the  chief  agents 
in  making  the  Chinese  Christian  in  be- 
lief and  conduct  must  always  be  the 
Chinese  Christians.  And  it  might  not 
be  too  much  to  say  that  the  largest  op- 
portunity for  evangelism  in  the  sense 
in  which  it  is  used  here,  is  in  the  Chris- 
tian church.  There  is  no  limits  to  the 
power  which  can  be  developed.  From 
Yu  Yao  comes  the  report  of  a community 
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where  there  has  never  been  a paid 
worker,  but  where  a Christian  shop- 
keeper has  led  services  in  his  own  house 
until  a congregation  of  a hundred  mem- 
bers has  grown  up.  Ten  minutes  walk 
from  our  home  is  a beautiful  little  chapel 
built  by  one  of  our  Christians  around 
which  a little  group  of  believers  has 
grown  up.  In  one  of  our  country  dis- 
tricts a few  Christians  living  about  four 
or  five  miles  from  the  self-supporting 
church  of  which  they  are  members,  a 
few  years  ago  with  the  pastor’s  approval, 
decided  to  have  occasional  meetings  in 
the  home  of  one  of  their  number.  To- 
day this  group  has  grown  to  a member- 
ship of  seventy.  The  original  little  one- 
roomed  house  and  the  two  adjoining  have 
been  purchased,  a dining  room  and 
kitchen  have  been  built.  Five  Sundays 
out  of  eight  they  carry  on  their  own 
services.  Probably  nine  men  out  of  ten 
in  this  purely  farming  section  cannot 
read,  yet  from  this  group  there  have  de- 
veloped seven  or  eight  men  who  can  ac- 
ceptably lead  the  Sunday  service,  and 
fifteen  or  twenty  men  who  can  lead  the 
C.  E.  meeting,  while  ninety  per  cent  of 
the  men  can  read  the  new  Testament. 
On  a recent  visit  nine  members  spoke 
briefly  and  four  lead  in  prayer  in  the 
C.  E.  meeting.  At  intervals  they  raise  a 
fund  to  employ  a substitute  for  one  of 
their  number  in  the  fields  and  he  goes 
out  to  preach. 


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Our  local  church  is  not  only  self  sup- 
porting, but  is  giving  one  and  a half 
times  as  much  for  benevolent  purposes 
as  it  spends  on  congregational  expenses. 
In  one  of  the  country  fields  the  per 
capita  giving  has  been  more  than  doubled 
in  the  last  four  years.  This  field  which 


The  sightly  and  well  nigh  inaccessible  heights 
along  the  way  to  the  "Mountain  Church” 
studded  with  lieathen  temples,  Cliefoo. 


includes  a number  of  small  groups  with 
a total  membership  of  130  has  had  an 
every  member  canvass  for  the  next  year’s 
finances  and  if  the  pledges  are  met  the 
contributions  will  be  at  a rate  which  will 
mean  self-support  when  any  group  or 
combination  of  groups  can  reach  a mem- 
bership of  140. 


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One  other  great  opportunity  is  that  of 
so  relating  the  churches  that  all  the 
forces  of  the  church  shall  be  brought  to 
bear  as  one  on  the  great  task  before  us. 
The  vision  of  it  stands  before  many  a 
Christian  leader,  and  in  many  a com- 
munity long  steps  have  been  taken  in 
this  direction. 

Frank  W.  Bible. 


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THE  LEADERS  OF  THE 
NEW  CHINA 

From  the  beginning  of  missionary  en- 
deavor in  China,  educational  work  has 
played  an  important  and  indispensable 
role.  None  will  deny  the  value  of  a well- 
graded  system  which  takes  the  student 
at  the  commencement  of  his  school 
career,  and  by  which  his  progress  can  be 
followed,  his  problems  studied,  until 
finally  he  graduates  from  the  College, 
Medical  School  or  Theological  Seminary 
with  his  intellectual  equipment  developed 
so  as  to  enable  him  to  shoulder  his  share 
of  the  task  that  the  Chinese  Church  and 
the  missionary  body  hold  in  common. 
Such,  briefly,  has  been  the  aim  of  those 
engaged  in  educational  work  in  connec- 


Tlie  fii’st  graduating  class  of  the  “Emma  Hoclil 
Eocke  Girls'  Boarding  School,”  Chenchow. 

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tion  with  the  Presbyterian  Mission  in  the 
province  of  Shantung. 

The  opportunities  in  days  gone  by 
were  great  indeed,  but  at  the  present 
they  are  even  greater — in  spite  of  the 
fact  that  the  Government  has  established 
schools  of  all  grades,  which  are  being 
carried  on  all  over  the  country  with 
varying  degrees  of  success.  It  is,  in  fact, 
in  view  of  such  conditions  that  the  Chris- 
tian educational  system  must  still  be  the 
means  of  preparing  men  who  shall  be 
equipped  to  do  the  work  which  we  all 
recognize  must  be  done  by  the  educated 
Christian  Chinese  eventually,  rather  than 
by  the  foreign  missionary. 

The  doors  that  are  open  to  those  in 
educational  work  in  China  are  no  differ- 
ent from  those  that  present  themselves 
to  men  and  women  who  are  teaching  in 
countries  where  work  of  that  nature  is 
still  in  the  earlier  stages.  There  are, 
first  of  all,  those  opportunities  along 
purely  educational  lines — the  forming  of 
careful  habits  of  study  and  the  realiza- 
tion, on  the  part  of  the  student,  that  these 
subjects  that  he  is  studying  are  interre- 
lated and  have  a bearing  one  upon  the 
other.  The  lack  of  sufficient  textbooks 
in  the  vernacular  is  naturally  a handi- 
cap and  the  fact  that  very  few  are  able, 
except  in  the  last  few  years  of  study,  to 
read  English  with  any  degree  of  readi- 
ness makes  the  task  of  the  teacher 
doubly  hard.  However,  this  opens  up  an 
If) 


even  greater  avenue  of  approach  for  the 
instructor,  who,  in  his  own  collateral 
reading,  must  bring  to  the  attention  of 
the  student  facts  of  which  he  is  per- 
sonally denied  the  knowledge.  The 
burden  lies,  then,  more  on  the  teacher 
than  on  the  student  in  those  cases  where 
there  is  an  insufficient  bibliography.  To 
offset  this  disadvantage  there  is  the  op- 
portunity of  translating  and  preparing 
textbooks  which  will  be  of  assistance  in 
helping  the  student  in  the  preparation 
of  whatever  calling  he  will  choose  to  fol- 
low. 

A young  man  desirous  of  doing  edu- 
cational work  on  the  foreign  field  and 
who  has,  let  us  say,  specialized  in  sci- 
entific work,  will  find  it  one  of  his  great- 
est sources  of  satisfaction  to  direct  the 
student  in  the  study  of  the  branches 
with  which  he  has  already  familiarized 
himself,  and  which  are  untrodden  fields 
to  those  who  look  to  him  for  guidance 
with  an  earnestness  and  sincerity  which 
is  rarely  found  in  the  class  rooms  at 
home.  The  same  would  be  true  in  refer- 
ence to  the  graduates  of  our  engineering 
schools — for  the  Chinese  who  are  quali- 
fied to  carry  on  that  kind  of  work  are 
comparatively  few.  What  a chance, 
then,  there  is  for  civil,  electrical  and  me- 
chanical engineers  in  this  land,  who,  in 
addition  to  teaching  the  student  the  es- 
sentials of  his  profession  would  also  help 
him  to  see  the  far-reaching  benefits  that 
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would  come  from  a body  of  consecrated, 
Chinese  Christian  engineers.  In  the 
teaching  of  the  humanities  it  is  equally 
the  case,  for  the  men  that  you  are  meet- 
ing in  your  classes,  day  by  day,  are  those 
who,  in  the  days  to  come,  will  take  their 
places  in  Christian  work,  either  as 
teachers,  evangelists,  ministers,  or  busi- 
ness men. 

Too  often  it  is  true  that  those  Chinese 
who  go  to  western  countries  for  the 
completion  of  their  education  are  trained 
away  from  their  home  conditions,  and, 
upon  returning  to  their  native  land,  find 
that  they  must  readjust  themselves  in 
order  to  be  of  real  service  to  their  fellow 
countrymen — an  adjustment  that  is  diffi- 
cult of  accomplishment.  The  oppor- 
tunity then  comes  to  those  engaged  in 
mission  educational  work  to  train  men 
along  lines  that  shall  not  wean  them 
away  from  their  home  surroundings,  so 
that,  when  they  have  passed  through  our 
schools  they  will  be  ready  to  step  into 
some  definite  place  and  do  their  share 
in  putting  the  shoulder  to  the  wheel. 

In  addition  to  the  chances  already 
mentioned,  there  come  abundant  oppor- 
tunities of  getting  into  touch  with  the  men 
by  means  of  activities  outside  of  the  regu- 
lar school  curriculum.  Nobody  will  deny 
that  in  athletics,  literary  societies,  athletic 
associations,  musical  organizations  and 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations, 
the  foreign  instructor,  who  is  so  inclined, 
IS 


will  find  an  invaluable  agency  at  his  dis- 
posal in  his  efiforts  to  mould  the  char- 
acter of  the  men  and  boys  in  his  institu- 
tion. To  get  the  men  to  play  even  a los- 
ing game  in  a spirit  of  friendly  rivalry; 
to  have  them  learn  the  importance  of 
team-work  whether  in  athletics,  society 
work  or  Christian  service,  is  to  build  up 
their  moral  fibre,  to  mould  their  thought 
at  a time  when  it  is  more  or  less  easily 
accomplished,  and  to  broaden  their  out- 
look in  life  and  to  take  them  away  from 
the  atrophying  effect  of  self-centred 
thought. 

“China  for  the  Chinese”  is  as  accept- 
able a slogan  for  the  missionary  as  it  is 
for  the  most  rabid  exclusionist,  and  it  is 
true,  that  for  the  best  results,  the  leaders 
of  New  China  ninst  be  men  of  careful 
intellectual  habits,  who,  in  the  perform- 
ance of  their  duties  as  practical  Chris- 
tians, will  raise  the  moral  tone  of  their 
community  and  mould  popular  thought 
along  true  lines.  To  turn  out  men  of 
that  calibre  is  the  opportiuiity,  then,  of 
those  engaged  in  educational  zvork  in  this 
land,  a zvork  which,  together  zvith 
cz'angelistic  enterprise,  must  take  ad- 
vantage  of  the  present  state  of  mind  of 
the  young  men  and  zvomen  of  China  be- 
fore it  is  too  late  and  the  mental  proc- 
esses of  the  natives  are  crystallised  in 
forms  that  are  not  conducive  to  the  pro- 
duction of  the  best  results. 

Saml.  J.  Mills. 


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FOREIGN  MEDICINE  AND 
CHRISTIANITY 

There  was  a time,  not  very  long  ao'o 
when  the  medical  opportunity  in  China 
was  not  educational.  The  Christian 
doctor  had  to  overcome  fear  and  super- 
stition. He  had  to  teach  the  Chinese  the 
value  and  superiority  of  foreign  medi- 
cine. He  had  to  create  a demand  for 
this  same  foreign  medicine  in  order  to 
have  patients,  for  patients  were  his  op- 
portunity to  tell  of  Christ. 

Now  the  Chinese  go  willingly  and 
gladly  to  foreign  doctors  and  there  is 
also  a demand  for  Chinese  doctors  who 
know  foreign  medicine.  The  financial 
^de  of  the  matter  is  so  attractive  that 
Canton  already  has  three  good-sized 
non-Christian  medical  schools  and  I 
don’t  know  how  many  small  ones;  while 
it  has  only  one  school  under  Christian 
auspices,  Hackett  Medical  College  for 
women.  This  shows  that  while  Canton 
is  turning  out  doctors  every  year  many 
of  them  are  not  learning  Christian  prin- 
ciples with  their  medicine. 

At  present  foreign  medicine  and 
Christianity  are  closely  connected.  If 
the  foreign  treatment  of  disease  is  not 
good  then  it  must  be  because  the  foreign 
God  is  not  much  good  either.  There 
are  few  laws  concerning  medicine.  Any 
school  can  turn  out  doctors,  or  one  does 
not  even  have  to  attend  a school  to  call 
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Clinic  at  “The  Hackett  Modicai  College  foi' 
Women,”  Canton. 


himself  a doctor.  As  a rule  foreign 
medicine  brings  more  money  than 
Chinese.  Therefore  it  is  more  desirable 
to  be  a foreign  trained  doctor.  It  is  all 
very  simple  and  easy. 

This  condition  of  affairs  is  not  going 
to  last  very  long.  China  is  awakening 
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very  fast.  Her  men  and  her  women  are 
going  to  distant  countries  and  are  com- 
ing back.  China  is  going  to  have  a 
medical  profession.  No  foreign  country 
can  send  doctors  into  the  highways  and 
byways  of  this  great  country.  Her  own 
sons  and  daughters  must  heal  her  sick- 
nesses and  attend  to  her  dying  ones.  The 
important  question  to  us  is : Shall 
China’s  medical  profession  be  Christian? 
Shall  her  doctors  bring  to  her  millions 
of  sick  and  dying  the  love  and  saving 
power  of  Jesus  Christ  or  shall  the  Al- 
mighty Dollar  grow  larger  and  larger 
until  it  becomes  the  supreme  god  of  the 
profession  ? 

riie  Chinese  are  fast  demanding  the 
best  educational  advantages.  They  will 
attend  the  best  schools.  Are  the  best 
schools  to  be  Christian  or  Non-Chris- 
tian ? This  is  the  question  that  must  be 
answered  soon.  All  the  schools  in 
Canton  are  in  great  need  of  apparatus 
and  teachers.  Our  Mission  medical 
school  cannot  hope  to  keep  up  with  the 
increasing  demands  upon  it  unless  it 
has  immediate  and  sufficient  help  in 
jieople  and  apparatus.  Our  graduates 
are  going  into  the  country  villages  and 
are  doing  good  work.  But  they  are  not 
sufficiently  well  trained  to  take  charge 
of  the  medical  work  in  a country  mis- 
sion station,  for  the  Board  still  feels  it 
necessary  to  send  doctors  to  the  country, 
d hese  missionary  doctors  see  a certain 


number  of  patients,  but  one  man  or  even 
two,  cannot  hope  to  extend  his  influence 
and  healing  ability  except  over  a small 
area.  They  can  never  really  heal  China. 

If,  however,  a good  medical  school 
was  built  up  in  Canton,  and  these  foreign 
doctors  could  come  here  to  teach  so  that 
the  Chinese  would  be  well  enough  trained 
to  take  up  the  country  hospitals  and  run 
them  well,  a few  years  would  show  a 
great  increase  in  the  sphere  of  Christian 
activity.  VVe  are  graduating  about  sever 
or  eight  girls  a year.  These  girls  are, 
almost  without  exception,  Christians.  If 
these  girls  were  better  trained  they  could 
be  put  in  charge  of  our  mission  hospitals 
in  the  country.  They  could  hold  their 
own  with  foreign  trained  doctors  and 
command  respect  from  the  foreigners  as 
well  as  the  Chinese.  Seven  or  eight  well 
trained  Christian  Chinese  women  doctors 
a year  help  in  the  healing  and  saving 
of  China. 

The  Chinese  can  heal  and  preach  as 
well  as  we  can  if  they  are  as  well  trained. 
IVhy  not  give  them  a chance?  Give 
them  a few  good  medical  schools  and 
in  a short  time  the  Boards  will  not  have 
to  send  doctors  to  China.  China  is 
bound  to  supply  her  own  doctors. 
Already  Canton  has  as  many  doctors  as 
it  needs,  if  they  were  all  well  trained, 
but  many  hardly  know  the  first  principles 
of  medicine.  The  Mission  Board’s 
schools  cannot  turn  out  all  China’s  doc- 

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tors.  There  will  always  be  non-Christian 
doctors,  but  the  Mission  Board’s  schools 
ought  to  turn  out  the  best  doctors.  The 
Missions  can  see  to  it  that  Christian 
medical  education  is  not  inferior  to  non- 
Christian  medical  education. 


Martha  Hackett.  M.D. 


riio  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 


of  the 


l‘resl)yterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A. 
I,5(i  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 


Form  23.16 


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